From Italy to now

Was hoping to have this up sooner, but well, you all know me. I was too busy hacking into other people’s accounts to be able to post anything… hehehe.

But I’ve been told off for that now, so it shouldn’t happen again.
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And I could have just posted this as 2 separate posts, but this way everything at least GET’S posted!

Song#1- Jack Johnson- Bubble Toes. (For no other reason than the lyrics La da da da da da... I’m easily pleased…)

Song#2- Pink- Dear Mr. President

Song#3- Red Hot Chili Peppers- Death Of A Martian

Album#1- Panic! At the Disco- A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out

Album#2- Feeder- Comfort In Sound

Album#3- Stereophonics- Just Enough Education To Perform

Film#1- Aliens. I am aware that in a pervious post I have made claims that I would never see this movie on account of its predecessor being, in my opinion, crap. However, they happened to be on as a double bill, and Judi wanted to see them, so I disked them. Then I got bored, so I watched it for the hell of it really. And now I have changed my mind. Yes, I still think Alien is crap. BUT, I now admit that Aliens is a good film.

Film#2- Mirror mask. After listening to Mike, Mark and Lorna quote this no-end in the pub, finally got to see it. And now I have a big desire to buy it, and watch it again. It’s one of those films that you HAVE to watch again to be able to fully grasp the whole situation. But yeah. Really liked it.

Film#3 K-Pax. It’s just one of those films that makes you think. Yeah, that’s all I have to say about it. To say more would ruin its beauty.

So, um, came back from Italy. Had some re-sits. Went to the pub a lot. Which is cool cos it meant I got to speak to people that I don’t normally speak to. Got to hear all about Mike’s idea to write a children’s story. Helped brainstorm.

Played a bit of pool. Singles and doubles. OH, potted the black off a rebound shot to win the game! That was a cool thing. Cos see, I suck at pool. And people were being really helpful, of “hit it about here” etc… which was nice of them and all, its just I never managed to get anything potted when I took their advice. In the black ball incident, for example, I was told to hit it at a certain point lightly. So I hit the cue ball hard towards the cushion. They all went on saying “what was the point of that?!” and I watched the black pot into the corner pocket, and said “something like that”. Yeah, they stopped “helping” me after that…

Had my birthday. Small thing. Just me and Lucy and Mark watching DVDs for the afternoon/night. Didn’t want anything big for it. Also meant Mark could kill 2 birds with one stone on some of the DVDs he’s been lending out to us over the past few months. Hence the film list at the top of the page.

What else? Oh, I worked. Um, yeah. Silver service, bar, plate service. Was kinda fun. Got to know a few people from Linden Hall, cos I got that shift a lot. Then one time they had a service on Thursday, and so I was working with people I don’t normally work with. And my god did they complain! And it wasn’t just the odd thing EVERYTHING that happened they complained about. And a couple of the elder people were saying “I'm not taking orders from some 18 year old punk. I don’t care if they work here!” Um, sorry love, but you’re going to have to take orders from some 18 year old punks, because they know how the system works there! You’ve been here for all of 10 minutes! So yeah, that was annoying.

Gone off wine. Suffice to say a bottle in an hour is not good. Um… what else?

Started uni again. I like my timetable this term. It’s so much better than last term. For the first 5 weeks I have Thursday off. As in completely. No lectures or practical or anything! Very strange. Last year it was once in a blue moon that we got a day off. Though I don't have nothing to do on Thursdays. I still have tkd.

Had first session tonight, and I'm a walking bruise! Why did I join up?! Why?! It wasn’t all that bad actually. Nice easy warm up, before doing a little bit of stretch work with the newbies. I'm not a newbie anymore! There are people a year below! WOOt!! Lol.

Then they all went off with Neil to do basics, like punching, kicking etc, the senior grades, (I’m a senior grade!!) went through the patterns. It was so much fun! I haven't been training for, oh, 4 months? So today I thought I’d better go through the patterns, just to remind myself what the heck we actually do! And I'm so glad I did. Alun was saying “lets go through Chon ji.” It’s the first proper pattern that we learn. Very simple. “Who here has been a lazy git this summer and has forgotten it?” About 5 people raised their hands. I would have if I hadn’t gone through them this afternoon!

So after Chon ji, we went through Dan Gun, then Do-San, and then through Won-Hyo. Which is the pattern we have to learn for our next grading. Which is in, oh, 3 weeks? Yeah, 3 weeks. I am so glad I went to training after Easter last yeah. We were doing grading stuff then, so I do actually know all that I need to know for the grading, unlike some people who haven't been since about March.

After patterns, did some non-contact free sparring. And I am so glad Craig was in the other half of the group for it. He doesn’t quite get this concept of no contact. So much so that Alun, who was in my group, noticed and make him to 25 knuckle push-ups. The number of times I've come away with bruises in non contact from him.

But instead I got to face nice people. Like Dan. And Jeff. And then nice people who accidentally hit me like Patrick. And then 6’6 instructor people who liked to perform jumping kicks to my head. He’s 1’3 taller than me! He DOESN’T NEED to do jumping ANYTHING to hit me. Heck, he needs to frigging crouch to punch me!! He could use me as a level to axe kick over. (Basically your leg does an arc, with the foot coming down on the shoulder or chest of the opponent.) And I KNOW how that kick is mean to go, because I’m getting a nice bruise on my shoulder from him!! Grrr.

We have a website! We’ve had one for the last however many years, but it was crap, and no-one ever went on it, and all the info was out of date. But over the past month or so, Alun has made a website. And put frigging pictures up on it. I was told I was in 2 of them. 2 my f***ing ass! I’m in 8! Ok, so that may not seem like a lot, and you do actually have to know where to look for me in 2, and know that it’s me in another 2, but come on! There are only 17 pics in total! SURELY there are better people to photograph than me?!

And in one I look like a complete Goomb. And I have LONG HAIR!!! Like really long. Down to my waist long. It’s freaky! So yeah, I could go and give you the address, but then you’d be able to SEE my Goomb-ness, and I really don’t want that. And then there are the photos from Liverpool… that I sorta remember being taken. Well, one I remember, the others not so much… Not that I can remember that night at all after about 10 or so. So it’s not that much of a surprise.

So I’ve got my new house all sorted out. And I've met all of my new housemates. And one of them nicked music from my iTunes within about a day of me moving in. and I could tell it was my music due to the albums. They were compilation albums I had made or that had been made for me. But I have been told how to do it myself now, so it’s all good.

My new house is about, oh, 10 yards from the train station! It’s great! I get the train everywhere now. Ok, so it’s an extra 15 minute walk or so to the lecture, so what? It’ll keep me fit. Course the later in the day it is the less the trains run. Like tonight for example. There was a 10.03 train I could catch, or a 10.33 train. People were headed to the pub after training, but I wasn’t sure. But when it got to 9.45, I figured I might as well go for one drink and catch the 10.33 rather than having to run, after a 2 hour session of tkd to get the 10.03. And I'm glad I did. I got to the station, to find that the 10.03 train had been delayed and was the next train due in. I could have been waiting for the first train for a half hour at the station, rather than having a nice chat with peeps from tkd for a bit.

Erm… Oh. I'm coming home for a long weekend! I love my timetable! I finish at 3 on Friday’s, and then don’t have any lectures on Monday morning, so I’m catching a train up Friday night and heading back on Monday morning, so I’m thinking a pub meet for those that are free. Oh yeah, date. Um, 10th-13th November. And I know it’s then cos it happens to be the one weekend I chose to come home this term, and it also happens to be the weekend the national group tkd championships are being held. So I can’t go. Again. But then again, I will be coming home, so it’s still all good.

Ok… I think that’s it for now. Assuming my laptop doesn’t eat this before I post it. I know it’s got a virus. Probably a whole frigging disease by now. And I’m pretty certain that if it continues to get worse, I'm going to have to format my hard-drive or something. Cos half my programmes ain't working. And the net is touch and go. And it’s beginning to annoy me. And of course it happens just as I start back at uni. Sheesh! The cheek!

Um yeah, that’s it. (Wow... I've caught up to the present! Be proud!)